Those of you whose waters broke naturally where and how did it happen?

Hi with ds my waters broke at hospital by the midwife, but for those of you that have had waters break naturally where were you, how did it happen, was there any warning before it happened and did you have contractions before the waters broke? Sorry for all the questions but am 39 weeks with dd and have started to wonder when the end will come!

With DS1, I don't remember them breaking, don't even know if the MW did it, or if they went naturally.

DS2, I was in hospital for pre-eclampsia, I was being induced, I had the gel at around 2 in the afternoon, nothing much happened, couldn't sleep that night, so was up at 1am bouncing on the birthing ball, still nothing happened so got into bed, about 2am I felt what I thought was a really big kick, it hurt a lot bit, and I had about 5 contractions one on top of the other all at once. Took me a little while to realise what was going on, went to move off the bed to get the MW, and my waters just leaked everywhere, the big 'kick' was actually a big pop!

At home - 2 days before due date - just got up to answer the phone and ...ping Contractions started about 3 hours later. No real warning although I had felt groggy and headachey all day and hadn't been able to sleep much the night before...

I was sitting on the sofa watching a film and eating chilli. I dropped some rice on the floor and bent forwards to pick it up from between my feet, thereby putting quite a bit of pressure on the bump I suppose. They popped then and contractions started half an hour later. In hindsight I think they weren't ready and I shouldn't have leant forwards like that. DD dropped the wrong way into the birth canal with the gush of waters.

So if I have been feeling really full all day like I have eaten a huge meal and my back has been aching since first thing this morning and I am peeing constantly could this be the start of labour? Would love a gush of water so I am sure as really don't want to leave ds at home with gp until I have to. No contractions just a cross between constant period pain and feeling full up!

Had just got out of bed but it was only a trickle - got in the shower and didn't stop trickling! Then had a show. I never had the 'pop' and gush....it just kept trickling and noone told me that it doesn't stop [for a while anyway!] This happenend on my due date but contractions didn't start until that evening and it didn't really progress so ended up being induced.

First two births, the MW's had to break them during labour.My third, they went naturally and I must have been 10cm dilated as it was a very quick labour and birth. I was laying on the bed at the time. Thank god for pampers bed mats